I read many years ago that the cohort born 1960-64 was the most conservative age cohort in the US: the earlier Boomers got the party; the tail end of the boom got the ‘60s hangover, which soured us on leftist utopian BS.
Born 1961...undoubtedly the most conservative member of my family and my workplace. The other quality of Generation Jones: We don’t believe what anyone is dealing out.
Those of us approaching retirement want a president who will not kill our 401K’s.
Mine has done very well under Trump, thank you very much.
I arrived in 1967, just past the “official” Jones generation, but I can relate to this. Was definitely a Reagan youth. I’m the youngest of 5 boomers who are all conservative to varying degrees.
This article is bs..
People born 42-53 are not all aged hippies who turned into squishy Republicans.
Sure people get a bit more conservative as they age...
But the liberal hippies stayed mostly liberal, and most older conservatives were never liberal even when we were young.
I went to rock concerts and played in a band - but my parents were Goldwater conservatives and I never voted fir a Democrat in my life.
This article is missing the whole point of Donald Trump: he is a hard working uncorrupted businessman who is fighting for the American working class - that’s what any sane American wants running the country - including a lot of Democrats.
That’s why he will win - not because of shifting demographics...
He has the right message - and the Democrats have nothing..
Save Trump from what?
Us “Jonesers” came of age with Reagan. We were politicially new and inexperienced when Reagan came to power.
We had our political views formed, watching how the media and deep state at the time panicked when they saw Reagan actually start to shrink government.
Thats when we realized the “machine” doesn’t like candidates who actually get things done and defang and downsize big government.
We also realized then that media lies big time.